Bullen v. Dawson

This was a bill in chancery, brought by John B. Dawson against Robert F. Bullen, P. B. Stanley, Malcolm McNeill and others, to set aside certain judgments by confession, the execution sales thereunder, and the sheriff’s deeds issued in pursuance of such sales, and to restrain the defendants, in the meantime, from conveying or incumbering the lands covered by said sheriff’s deeds. The following facts appearing from the pleadings and proofs do not seem to be controverted:

On the 12th day of September, 1887, the day the bill was filed, the complainant was, and for more than twenty years prior…